How mass immigration transformed Australia and opened up divisions - "Bondi Beach has a special place in the stories Australia tells about itself. In a country where almost 90pc of people live within 30 miles of the coast, beaches symbolise the central tenet of the Australian faith: open to all, with everyone equal on the sand... After the Oct 7 2023 Hamas terrorist onslaught in Israel, and the Israeli defence force’s subsequent assault on Gaza, the number of anti-Semitic incidents has soared. Across Australia, it went from a steady annual rate in the mid-400s earlier this decade to 2,062 incidents last year, and 1,654 in the 12 months to Sept 30 this year. New South Wales, which mostly means Sydney, accounted for about 40pc of these. The report runs through a chilling litany of events. Jewish people have received Nazi salutes, or people screaming “f--- the Jews”. A Bondi eatery was burned, a car was torched and a childcare centre was set on fire. Nazi symbols and slogans were repeatedly painted on the walls and windows of synagogues and Jewish schools. Then, in early November, 60 black-clad protesters lined up outside the New South Wales parliament house, holding a banner that said “abolish the Jewish lobby”. “There is a sickness in modern Australian society, and it is hatred of Jews,” said Daniel Aghion, of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, as he launched the report. But even he could not have begun to imagine the horror that lay in wait. This is not just the most grievous anti-Semitic attack Australia has ever experienced. It is also the most lethal terrorist attack yet perpetrated on Australian soil... “The phrase ‘globalise the Intifada’ is not a chant – it’s a call to action. It has consequences,” said a Jewish man, who lives near Bondi, in the hours after the attack. Another Sydney local lamented the fact that some of his old schoolmates’ social media accounts had become “deranged with ‘anti-Zionist’ obsession”. But the Jews’ position is unusual in that they are almost politically encircled."
Bondi Beach: Eleven killed in shooting targeting Australia’s Jewish community
Naturally, I saw multiple terrorism supporters blame "Zionist" "false flags" for this
Time to claim that the US is worse because this happens every week, persecute legal gun owners, crack down on "Islamophobia" even more and impose sanctions on Israel and continue to accuse them of "genocide"
Bondi Beach latest: Gunman ‘pledged allegiance to Islamic State’ - "Australia’s spy agency had reportedly investigated Bondi Beach gunman Naveed Akram over his ties to Islamic State. Naveed Akram, 24, and his father Sajid Akram, 50, have been named as the terror suspects responsible for the attack on Jewish families who were celebrating Hanukkah in Sydney on Sunday evening local time. Naveed Akram, a recently unemployed bricklayer, had been added to a watchlist in 2019 and was believed to have pledged allegiance to the IS terrorist group, the Australian Broadcast Corporation reported."
Australia failed Jews long before the Bondi beach attack - " this medieval savagery was entirely predictable. After all, it was on the steps of Sydney Opera House, on the October 8 2023, long before Israel had even counted its dead from the atrocity of the previous day and even before their military had secured their own borders, that Islamist protesters in Australia gathered to repeatedly shout “Gas the Jews” and “Kill the Jews”. The chants were recorded for the media to witness. The Australian authorities did nothing. Hours before that in London, outside the Israeli Embassy, thousands of Islamists gathered on the evening of October 7 2023 to “protest” against Israel, even though Israel at that point was no more than the flailing victim of the worst anti-Jewish pogrom since the Second World War. This isn’t about Israel – it’s about Jews. The British authorities did nothing and have continued to do nothing to quell the weekly hate marches that foretell ominously of worse to come. Western society now needs political giants if it going to survive this threat. But I wrote for this newspaper in August of how almost all Western leaders are on the contrary political pygmies, citing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia as an example, (as well as Mark Carney of Canada, Keir Starmer of the UK and Emmanuel Macron of France). They have done nothing to quell the growing rise in antisemitism and anti-West Islamist fascism in their countries. The decline in Australian security for Jews has been perhaps the most marked in the Western world. There are only around 120,000 Jews in Australia in a population of over 28 million. That is 0.4 per cent of the population. But there have been over 3,500 recorded antisemitic incidents in Australia in the past two years including arson at a Melbourne synagogue later acknowledged as a terrorist attack. Albanese has done nothing. In fact, he has, in the words of Benjamin Netanyahu, instead “poured fuel” on the hatred of Jews spreading in Australia. In one incident, a group of teenage boys was verbally abused by several people at Melbourne’s St Kilda Beach, with one woman throwing on ice-cream at them and calling them “baby killers”, while another person shouted “Hitler should have gassed you all”. The same Australian report gave an account of how, in the Waverley suburb of Sydney, a pig’s leg was thrown into a Kosher Jewish business in August. Several people in a car shouted “Heil Hitler” to people leaving a synagogue in Perth in October last year. Still Anthony Albanese did nothing. Like Keir Starmer, Anthony Albanese refuses to call out these events for what they are – the unmistakable Islamist threat to their societies and indeed to Western civilisation. When will this death cult be checked, and by whom? There are few leaders on the horizon who seem likely to take on the challenge. In the 1930s Churchill foresaw World War Two in what he called his “wilderness years”, when he was castigated for his warnings and almost no-one accepted his predictions of the looming threat of Nazi fascism. But the West is now in a new wilderness where weak Western leaders are docile and indolent in the face of Islamist extremism and a poisonous antisemitism which is never far from the surface and which now has permeated mainstream society. Just this weekend marchers in Birmingham carried banners advocating an intifada and referring to “one solution”. What does that mean, except more of the same slaughter of Jews? How do we assume that will end, including for those who come after the Jews, like Hindus, Sikhs and Christians? Australia under Anthony Albanese is an embarrassment to its previous generations who gave their lives for the Western values that Australia has thrived under and which are now threatened... While Israel’s security services warned Australia that Iran has plotted to attack Australian Jews Albanese has focussed instead on anti-Israel rhetoric, recognised the non-existent Palestinian “state” and banned Israeli politicians simply seeking to reassure Australian Jews from even entering Australia. If Western leaders continue to feed the crocodile of appeasement there can be no doubt that they will eventually be consumed themselves."
Bondi Beach shooters were father and son - "Speaking as officers surrounded their home, Naveed’s mother, Verena, insisted her son is “a good boy”... Social media posts from an Islamic centre in Australia show Naveed completed religious studies in 2022, raising questions about possible radicalisation and extremist networks operating in the country... some supporters of Iran’s regime celebrated the attack on social media. One post praised Naveed Akram as “the most diligent member of the 2000s generation to date”. Iranian state media reported the shooting using derogatory language, with Tasnim news agency describing the victims in terms similar to those used during recent hostilities between Israel and Iran... Australia’s spy chief, Mike Burgess, said in August that Iran had “lit the matches and fanned the flames” of antisemitism in Australia. He said Tehran had directed at least two arson attacks in the past year, including incidents targeting a Melbourne synagogue and a Sydney Jewish restaurant."
Disgusting. How could the Iranians praise "Zionists" so much?!
You built this, brick by rhetorical intifada brick. So spare us your shock and save your prayers - "Now they’re all shocked. The progressive activists. The influencers. The Greens. The podcasters. All those impeccably right-on people who’ve spent two years making “Zionist” – or “Zio” – the dirtiest word in the Australian vocabulary. Who marched down Oxford Street during the Mardi Gras holding a sign that said “Globalise the Intifada”. Well, congratulations. The Intifada’s here. Globalised. Mission accomplished. It arrived on Sunday night, on the first night of Hanukkah. The so-called resistance moment – that noble struggle for liberation we’ve been hearing so much about – manifested as gunmen opening fire on Jewish families celebrating their festival by the sea. Fifteen dead. At least. A 10-year-old girl among them. The motive? Oh, we don’t officially know the motive yet. But of course we know the motive. We’ve watched it incubate in this country since October 7, 2023: anti-Jewish rhetoric in the guise of morally urgent criticism of a war in the Middle East. Dressed up by the very people now eagerly posting their condolences. Their horror and devastation and disbelief. But here’s what needs to be said to the people who’ve spent two years treating Israel as a uniquely evil state. Who’ve made “Zionism” synonymous with racism and slavery and every conceivable sin. Who’ve said Zionists should not be platformed, should not have culturally safe spaces, should essentially be drummed out of polite society. Who’ve chanted “from the river to the sea” at rallies, in parliament, and posted it on their Instagram stories with little watermelon emojis: You built this. You laid the foundations, brick by rhetorical brick, post by viral post, march by march with your inverted red triangles and your signs bearing the words “Zionists are neo-Nazis”. What exactly did you think “intifada” meant? It means blood. It has always meant blood. And now they’ll be cleaning up the blood on Bondi Beach for weeks. Take Nasser Mashni, now sending “love, care and solidarity” to the Jewish victims. The same Nasser Mashni who for two years, in his role with the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network, has painted Zionism as “settler colonialism” and “Jewish supremacy”. Who thinks Israel’s destruction would bring about – and I quote – the “liberation of the earth”. Who won’t call Hamas a terrorist group but who, sure, stands in solidarity. Very meaningful. Or Randa Abdel-Fattah, the author and academic, who’s expressing sadness online at this “horrific act of anti-Semitism”. Who’s on record saying Zionists have “no claim or right to cultural safety”. Who quite literally, the day after the October 7 massacres – the day after families were burned alive in their homes – changed her profile picture to a paraglider in Palestinian colours. Mary Kostakidis finds it all “deeply shocking”. The former SBS newsreader who’s spent months promoting conspiracy theories about the “Zionist lobby”, who reposted a tweet earlier this year claiming the “genocide” in Gaza is the real cause of underlying anti-Semitism. Which, even if Mary didn’t mean this, sounds to me like: Jews supporting Israel bring it on themselves. But Bondi? What happened? Shocking. Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi said: “My thoughts are especially with the Jewish community.” The same community whose state is “rogue” and “genocidal”. Abbie Chatfield is “heartbroken” and “sickened” by the “anti semetic (sic)” attack. Despite refusing to “platform Zionists” on her podcast. Despite publicly shaming a man as a “genocide supporter”. Just politics, right? Nothing personal. Anti-Semitism has always been like this. It never goose-steps into the ball dressed as anti-Semitism. It doesn’t wear a sign. It arrives in the costume of the moment. As nationalism. As anti-capitalism. As social justice. It makes itself sound reasonable, even righteous. It speaks in the gentle language of decolonisation and human rights. And then people die; that’s how this story goes. Yes, you can criticise Israel. You can oppose settlements and protest civilian casualties in Gaza. But there’s a difference – and it’s a life-or-death difference now – between protest and incitement. Between holding a government accountable for its conduct in war and demonising an entire people. Because when people talk about Russia and its war in Ukraine, none of it metastasises into graffiti on Russian restaurants. Into harassment of Russian students. Into boycotts and firebombings. Or bullets on beaches. But with Israel? With Jews? It always does. Every single time. And the Jewish community kept saying this. We saw it coming. We saw it in Europe and America. We saw it in England. So spare us the shock. Save the thoughts and prayers. You don’t get to globalise the intifada and then act all surprised when it finally shows up."
Infuriating moment woman DISRUPTS Bondi Beach terror attack vigil with anti-Israel comments - "Police have removed a woman from a memorial vigil for the Bondi Beach terror attack after she launched into a pro-Palestine protest and made anti-Israel comments. Serial protester Michelle Berkon shouted accusations that others were politicising the tragedy and demanded Israeli flags be taken down, as she was escorted away from the vigil by police. 'Remove the Israeli flag. Depoliticise this event, and we can all come out here,' she said. Berkon who was wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh scarf, was heckled by hundreds in the crowd, with chants of 'get her out'. She later told the media that she was Jewish and believed she had a right to protest at the vigil... She is also a prominent member of the Palestine Action Group, behind the pro-Palestine protests that were held in Sydney's CBD."
The "pro-Palestinian" crowd showing how classy they are, as usual
Benny Johnson on X - "The Prime Minister of Australia says the true threat is “right-wing extremist groups” after the Islamic terrorist attack yesterday. Actually absurd."
Drew Pavlou ๐ฆ๐บ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐น๐ผ on X - "The Australian Prime Minister spoke a total of 5022 words in public about the Bondi Massacre and did not once say the words ''Muslim,'' ''Islam'' or ''Islamic extremism.'' He did however twice raise the threat of ''right wing extremism.'' Even though Bondi was an Islamic terror attack."
Dale Vince ‘blames’ Israel for Bondi Beach massacre - "The Labour donor Dale Vince has provoked a backlash after appearing to blame Israel for the Bondi Beach massacre... Mr Vince later added that while there was no excuse for terrorism or racism, Mr Netanyahu was overlooking “the impacts of his own terrorism”. He said: “If anti-Semitism is rising in the world today, then surely on any rational analysis the biggest single cause of that will be the genocide in Palestine.”... Lord Goldsmith, a Conservative peer and former minister, said in response to Mr Vince: “Has anti-Semitism only been around for 75 years? No pogroms or Jew hate before then?”"
If Israel causes anti-Semitism, the corollary of that is that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, since the two are apparently irrevocably linked
What would happen to someone who says Islamophobia is caused by Muslim terrorism?
Lisa on X - "Here’s the image the media are hiding. The alleged Bondi killer Naveed Akram waving the ISIS flag walking across the Harbour Bridge at the pro Gaza rally in August The “March for Humanity” looked more like a March for Terror. Just look at the images. The same people on Oct 9 2023, literally thousands of radicalised people, marched on the Opera House and openly celebrated death. Before Israel had fired a single shot How are we meant to live in Sydney safely with thousands of people who not only see rape, kidnap and murder as justified, but celebrate it? The government and media hid these images because they themselves have close friendships with these extremists How are we meant to live with a government who treat these people as a protected class, and by doing so embolden their abhorrent cause? They told you these people were “peaceful” Three months later the Prime Minister told you he was “shocked” that 15 people were murdered, but no one is shocked. He told you the gunmen were not radicalised and were not under surveillance. Does he see marching with ISIS flags and celebrating death as normal behaviour? Obviously they are radicalised and there’s thousands of them in Sydney And they are very likely across the country While the pro Gaza movement was growing and becoming politically embedded Labor told you Neo Nazis were the problem. They launched National Security Investigations Unit which apparently uses taxpayer funds and 8000 police to surveil right wing people who have not committed crimes, but just a reminder the PM told you the father and son were not under surveillance Labor are saying not to politicise the Bondi Massacre, which is code for don’t criticise Labor but there is clear evidence that the pro Gaza movement has dangerous elements that have been deliberately politically embedded. It’s become apart of the foundation of Labor’s power base. That’s why we are in this mess. And why the government do not, and will not, get us out of it"
Kenneth Roth on X - ""It is obscene how...the right has seized" on the Bondi Beach massacre "to advance an Islamophobic, anti-Palestinian agenda..., disgusting to see Israel’s politicians almost gleeful at the opportunity to distract from their genocidal onslaught in Gaza.""
Anne Herzberg on X - "Is there any greater evidence that the intl human rights industry is institutionally antisemitic, an integral part of the anti-Israel propaganda campaign, and tolerant of Islamist violence? Within hours of the Bondi Beach massacre, several UN rapporteurs and NGO officials spent more time denouncing Bibi and smearing Israel through lockstep messaging than speaking out on behalf of the victims and condemning antisemitism."
Drew Pavlou ๐ฆ๐บ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐น๐ผ on X - "BREAKING: The Islamic extremist cleric who radicalised the Bondi gunman Naveed Akram actually publicly dared the Australian government to revoke his citizenship in 2014. The Australian government didn’t do it. Wissam Haddad stayed in Australia and the outcome was that 15 people were ultimately murdered by a young man he inspired. THIS IS WHY WE NEED DEPORTATIONS. 15 PEOPLE WOULD BE ALIVE RIGHT NOW IF THIS MAN HAD BEEN DEPORTED IN 2014."
Amy Mek on X - "Anyone notice how left-wing politicians in America rushed to defend Islam, not the Jews who were just slaughtered in the name of Islam in Australia? Not the victims. Not the targeted Jewish community. Not the Islamic motive the attackers themselves cited. The reflex was immediate: protect Islam, even as Jewish bodies were still on the ground. This is the same psychological abuse inflicted on Europeans after every Islamic terror attack - gaslighting, moral intimidation, and narrative inversion. Name Islam and you’re smeared. Question Islamic motivation and you’re threatened. Point out the pattern and you’re silenced. Because admitting the truth would expose the entire political project. These politicians are willing to excuse mass jihad murder, downplay Islamic motivation, and sacrifice innocent lives for votes. They continue importing Islam, not as a private faith, but as a political and legal system - while pretending its documented hostility toward Jews, Christians, and Hindus is imaginary. They believe Islam can be used to fracture society, destabilize the nation, and consolidate power. What they refuse to acknowledge is the historical constant: Islam does not coexist with those who enable it. It demands submission, not partnership you fools. And it eventually turns on those who protect it. Europe learned this too late. America is being pushed down the same path, by leaders who defend Islam more fiercely than they defend the people being murdered in its name. I’m sorry, but I will not light myself on fire to preserve a lie that keeps getting people killed."
Ashley Rindsberg on X - "Wikipedia editors are fighting to call the Bondi Beach massacre a "shooting" not a "terror attack." Editors are also working to keep the suspects names off the entry—like they did with Iryna Zarutska. So far, they've been mostly successful, as the names are far down the page."
Shaun Maguire on X - "Reminder: Wikipedia is a core battleground in the Info War A common tactic is to focus editing resources on the ~48 hours after an event happens where search volume is highest, and the ability to influence opinion is also highest"
Drew Pavlou ๐ฆ๐บ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐น๐ผ on X - "The left wing University of Sydney Students Representative Council responded to the Bondi Islamic terrorist attack by denouncing “so-called Australia” as a colonial entity. They then tried to link the Islamic terror attack to the Cronulla Riots to blame white people. Literally insane"
Opinion | The Bondi Beach Shooting Is What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like - The New York Times - "the Hanukkah massacre also represents the continuing inability of the government of Anthony Albanese, Australia’s prime minister, to safeguard the country’s Jewish community. In October 2024, a kosher restaurant in Bondi was the target of an arson attack; six weeks later, an Orthodox synagogue was firebombed. Those attacks were attributed to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps of Iran, and the Albanese government duly responded by expelling the Iranian ambassador in Canberra and closing its own embassy in Tehran. Sadly for Australia, foreign actors alone aren’t the problem. Last year, Jillian Segal, the government’s special envoy to combat antisemitism, warned that “antisemitic behavior is not only present on many campuses, but is an embedded part of the culture.” In the wake of Hamas’s attack of Oct. 7, 2023, the Greens legislator Jenny Leong went on a rant accusing “the tentacles” of the “Jewish lobby and the Zionist lobby” of “infiltrating into every single aspect of what is ethnic community groups.” Jewish homes, neighborhoods and a day care center have been targeted by vandals and arsonists. At least one of the alleged shooters in Sunday’s attack was known to authorities, “but not in an immediate threat perspective,” according to a top Australian intelligence official. I heard an earful of alarm from Jewish communal leaders when I last visited Australia in June 2024, but nothing seemed to change. On Sunday, the Australian Jewish Association posted a message to Facebook: “How many times did we warn the government? We never felt once that they listened.” They are probably listening now. But the problem for the Albanese government, which in September recognized a Palestinian state and has been outspoken in its condemnation of Israeli actions in Gaza, is that the moral line between the routine demonization of Israel and attacks on Jews who are presumed to support Israel isn’t necessarily clear. On Sunday, Albanese said that “the evil that was unleashed at Bondi Beach today is beyond comprehension.” In fact, it’s entirely comprehensible. For fanatics who have been led to believe that the Jewish state is the apotheosis of evil, killing Jews represents a twisted notion of justice. Even when the victims are unarmed civilians. Even when they are celebrating an ancient, joyful holiday."
Linda Mamoun on X - "Only the @nytimes would print a headline this twisted. Bondi Beach has nothing to do with the Palestinian struggle, and to say it does is journalistic malpractice."
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christoph on X - "Perhaps actual Palestinians may not connect Bondi to their struggle. But the shooters almost certainly did, and anti-imperialists seem torn between “the victims were zionists so they had it coming” and “clearly this is an Israeli false flag to discredit the Palestinian cause”"
Darren Grimes | Facebook - "15 dead at a Hanukkah festival. Perpetrators: Sajid and Naveed. Media headline: "Muslim Hero Disarms Gunman." You have to admire the sheer audacity of the spin. The state broadcasters are currently breaking their backs to frame a sectarian massacre as a triumph of multiculturalism. Yes, the bloke who tackled the gunman is a hero. He’s a braver man than I am. But are we really going to pretend that finding one decent chap in the rubble of a catastrophe somehow balances the books? We have imported a Middle Eastern war onto our streets. The headline isn't that one immigrant helped; the headline is that "diversity" just got a dozen innocent people slaughtered for being Jewish. Stop gaslighting us. The exception doesn't justify the rule."
